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Nigeria Excluded from 12 African Countries To Receive Malaria Vaccine
Nigeria has been excluded from the list of 12 African nations receiving 18 million doses of the first-ever malaria vaccine.
This is a joint decision by Vaccine Alliance, World Health Organisation, and United Nations Children’s Fund.
More than 1.7 million children have previously received the Mosquirix (RTS,S) vaccine, created by British pharmaceutical giant GSK, as part of a pilot programme in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi.
Nine additional nations, such as Liberia, Niger, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin, and Uganda, will receive supplies in addition to the three test countries.
